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questions about recently acquired ReadyNAS
I bought a ReadyNAS Duo off of eBay recently thinking a prebuilt RAID box would keep my data nice and safe. I placed (2) 2TB drives in it and went through the initial setup. Both drives yielded ATA errors. Discovering that the drive models were not on the compatablity list I opted to replace them and sell the original drives later. I selected (2) 4TB drives that were on the list.
The drives have been placed in the ReadyNAS Duo and a factory reset was done again. The firmware is RAIDiator 4.1.12. The first drive is going through it's initial operation and it appears it being setup as a 2TB drive ( Setup page says: Volume C: Online, X-RAID, 2 disks, 0% of 1662 GB used ). I had seen a reference on a forum to 2 TB being the maximum drive size for the device. However I saw no such reference in the software or hardware manual. When I found the 4TB model listed on the listed of approved drives I assumed that the information seen on the forums about a 2TB max HD size was not accurate. Am I wrong here? Is this device seriously going to try to make a 2TB out of a 4TB one? If so, why would Netgear put any models above 2TB on the list for this device?
Thanks in advance for any ideas or answers,
Karl
The drives have been placed in the ReadyNAS Duo and a factory reset was done again. The firmware is RAIDiator 4.1.12. The first drive is going through it's initial operation and it appears it being setup as a 2TB drive ( Setup page says: Volume C: Online, X-RAID, 2 disks, 0% of 1662 GB used ). I had seen a reference on a forum to 2 TB being the maximum drive size for the device. However I saw no such reference in the software or hardware manual. When I found the 4TB model listed on the listed of approved drives I assumed that the information seen on the forums about a 2TB max HD size was not accurate. Am I wrong here? Is this device seriously going to try to make a 2TB out of a 4TB one? If so, why would Netgear put any models above 2TB on the list for this device?
Thanks in advance for any ideas or answers,
Karl
4 Replies
- 2TB is the max supported hard drive capacity for your Duo v1. There is no GPT support.
Take a look at http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how-to-tell-whether-i-have-a-duo-v1-or-duo-v2-or-nv-v1-or-nv-v2/ - Thanks for the info. I didn't state so in the original post but I already knew I had the v1. While I believe you about the 2 TB limit, I still haven't found the reference in the manual that it is. It's only important because I used Netgear's official material as a reference to make several hundreds dollars of purchases from a personal budget. If I overlooked something, then I overlooked something. I can live with that. I am just curious whether I misread something or whether the manuals are simply unclear.
Thanks again! - The list of approved drives clearly shows 2TB as the maximum approved for your model. There are no higher capacity drives in the list.
It is not in the manual as the manual does not refer to things such as this. However GPT support is not available on the Duo v1. Read up on MBR GPT and 3TB drives and you will find why GPT support is necessary to support drives with larger capacity.
On the hardware compatibility list page for hard disks select Legacy and then in another box that will then show select ReadyNAS Duo. Be sure to select ReadyNAS Duo not ReadyNAS Duo v2. The v2 is a very different model.
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